[issue17705] Fill Character cannot be \0

[Stefan Krah]

Stefan Krah added the comment:

Mark Dickinson <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> Numpy, for example, pads strings will NUL bytes when placing a short
> string in long fixed-width field.

I was hoping to escape the work, but that's quite convincing. ;)

Changing libmpdec doesn't look very appealing, so probably I'll use
"{" as a placeholder for NUL and then rewrite the result.

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